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POLITICAL SCIENCE POLITICAL PARTIES
1. Nationalism
● Ethnic Nationalism does exist, just not at national level in Canada
○ Ie. Québec: Pur Laine: francophones on Québec that can trace 150+ years in
Quebec and both sides are french. This is the closest Canada arguably has.
○ Indigenous: might not (believe) they are Canadians
■ Under a sense of colonization
■ Canadian identity might come 2nd or may not be typically
recognized/identified to themselves
● No national party unlike Bloc Québecois
○ National party organizations (Assembly of First Nations)
● Canada and USA have lived together for a very long time (1812→now) over
200 years in peace
○ Participates in trade (biggest trading relationship internationally)
○ Solves issues through institutional means
2. Multiculturalism
● First French settlers immersed themselves in indigenous cultures
○ Then English and Jews
○ In 1759 British victorious of war/argument in Quebec/ ∴ part of British
Empire
■ Brits knew the Americans weren’t too happy (just a few years from
American wars of independence) and didn't want to further alienate
Québecois
■ 1971 term was coined and used readily
● Until then the canadian gov’t couldn’t find out where the
francophones were living (west 🠄east)
● Royal Commision of Bilingualism and Biculturalism 1960’s
○ Encountered many people not strictly either French or English
○ Might live there for 200 years but still strongly identify as Scottish Canadian,
Chinese Canadian, etc.
○ PM P Trudeau implemented multiculturalism policy(1970’s)
■ Pushed multicultural celebrations
■ Critics say( may say) it’s all surface, we are institutionally/systemically
bicultural not multicultural
■ Most diverse country internationally
■ Likely most effective in the world
■ We don’t tend to head a lot of racism/anti-immigration to the extent that
we hear from the US or the UK
🠄 Ideas in Political Economy
● Conservative
● Conservative’s ideology can vary per nation
○ Canada has Red Tories: nickname for Conservative, red refers to socialist
tendencies

● In essence Conservatives vs. Liberal, Conservatives arguably came about in response
to Liberals
○ No concept of Aristocracy in Canada (transplanted gov’t system), and was
diminishing in England by 1700’s, except for in Québec before “anglification”
○ More of elite social classes in Canada, people coming from UK wanting to
continue (live elite lifestyle)
● Family Compact:
○ As much as they lived their lifestyles, felt sense of responsibility over lower
classes, correspondingly lower classes were cared for in return for them being
“well behaved” (ie not rioting). Obviously not perfect, but unique sense of
reciprocal responsibility
● This idea is theorized to shaping modern social services
○ Ie rich donating to church and church providing education (sunday schools),
healthcare, etc “social welfare”
○ People seeing this, could see benefits of having literate and healthy population